GIANT AIRLINER.
TEST FLIGHT TO COVENTRY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 26. Britain’s biggest airliner, the Ensign, was flown to Coventry to-day for full-load tests, after the completion of which, in about two months time, she will he handed to the Air Ministry experts for before going into commission on Empire air routes. ... She is the first of 14 giant air-liners under construction bjv Armstrong, Whitworth, some of which will go into service on Empire routes and others on Imperial Airways European routes. The European machines have four saloons (one of them a room), and the Empire craft, which must carry big mail loads, have three saloons with places for 27 travellers by day and sleeping-berths lor 26 by night. , , These 14 monoplanes .represent a capital investment. Imperial Airways state, of approximately £700,0U0.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 51, 28 January 1938, Page 7
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133GIANT AIRLINER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 51, 28 January 1938, Page 7
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